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cas," using the name of an obscure barkeeper for the reason that they were prominent socially ana aiun i want it known that their names were connected with the liquor house; that they and T. B. Felder, "with whom he was friendly," said to him, "you ought to do something for us down in tnai i country;" that he told them if their "whiskey came up to the standard and prices were the same as others, he f didn't see why they couldn't get some 1 ? <.>,0+ T j an(j ?-?i mc uuismuss y 1/ - V - ? Dudley didn't think they were getting enough business from the State dis-1 pensary and they sent T. B. Felder to * see him at Newberry, which was sotne' 18 months before he went out of office; that T. B. Felder came to see him j ' . rnattpr for several times auuui, , ? "you know Tom is a fellow who never j lets up," said Evans. j The Drinks Located. Finally "Hub" said that T. B. Felder came to see him and told him that, he had bought out the "Sydney Lucas" company and that Felder spent the day in Newberry. He said that he in T7! XT A?11 Pharlip troaucea jpeiuer lu JD? XX. AUXa, | Purcell and others about town; that Felder was a man who liked his dram and he said, "Can't you take us to some place where we can get a drink." j He said he told him he thought he -n/vii'M "EVirier said, "lead me to it;" WUAU that he took them up in Cole. L. i Blease's office, introduced Felder to Blease and the latter pulled out thewhiskey and they had their drink. He J said that Felder first mentioned the company to him in Atlanta and after-; wards came to Xewberrv to see him, oil the occasion mentioned, but he was j too busy and then Felder wrote him in October, he said that he would ex- j plain the whole "scheme where we could get rick quick." "T. B ? Letters. Ke referred to the "T. B." letters ' "Rlpac;^ . given out last yt?<tx" u* ^^ ^, which alleged that Felder tried to get "Hub" Evans to go into a company on a "frame-up" to sell the dispensary, and which Evans turned down. Witness said he never intended the letters to be printed; that they T\vere stolen from his desk and read and that he gave them to Governor Blease when the latter asked him for them; said ne didn't tell the Lyon-Christensen committee about the Felder letters because they didn't ask him for them. He said that after the investigation started he was in Atlanta talking to Felder and asked him, "Tom suppose those letters would fall into Lyon's hands?" and that Felder replied, "I am too smart for,them to catch me." Says Called Felder Liar. He related ail incident that a lawyer named W. M. Hough, "the one that made Taft say what whiskey was" said Evans, representing A. L. Dunn, Grabfelder's man, to whom Evans had given an affidavit that he had never paid any rebates, was told by Felder in Washington that Evans had turned State's evidence and all he had to do wras to see him and he would tell him to advise Grabfelder to pay over $50,000 to Ftelder, and that he denounced Felder as a liar in his office in the presence of Dunn and Hough. Grabfelder's was a house which had been judged guilty by the Ansel commission nf overcharges and Felder was trying to collect the money out of them. Regrets Connection with Dispensary. "While I honestly regret ever having had anything to do with it," said Evans, referring to the old State dispensary and the criticism of the same, "yet the' liquor houses which were said to have paid graft under the old Slate dispensary are today selling liquor to the county dispensaries at a higher price than th^ eld State disI.ens^ry paid." The witness offered to assist the .J(1V wav that he could and t'Uli.iii; uuj - promised to ask Governor Blease for the "T. B." letters for the committee to inspect, the letters to be returned to Evans by the committee. He said that if he had the records of his office uh?!e he was on the dispensary board he could give the committee all the information desired as to the doings of the dispensary while he was on the board, but that the detectives employed by the Christensen-Lyon investigating committee in 1905 ransacked his office in his absence and got possession of the data. "You won't find all the minutes of my board, for they -tvere burned, at least part of them, in the Columbia liotel by Goodman and G. H. Charles," he said. He, however, said if the Attorney general would assist him he nr/Miirt frM together such of the records as were left and then use thein in his testimony. "Hub" Evans is an interesting talker and a good sized audience heard his testimony this afternoon. He will b-3 on the stand when the committee resumes in the morning at 9.30 o'clock. Accuracy and Honesty. "Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty." ?C. Simmons. (iOYEKNOK WITHHOLDS THE "T. Ii." LETTERS I i (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1). indictment and it might prejudice his | case. Boykin said he never heard of any! altercation between Evans and Felder and didn't know they were intimate. Witness said he and Towill were sur-j prised at Felder's proposition in the Jerome hotel. Didn't know whether Evans was surprised or not, for, said be, "you know him as well as I do and nothing seems to jostle him." Witness knew nothing of any charges against Attorney General Lyon and the Ansel commission. "Hub** Evans Resumes. i i H. H. Evans resumed the stand and continued his testimony of yesterday. Resuming his narrative of Felder, said Felder told him he had purchased the "Sidney Lucas" company, and had his stock paid for. Said Felder stated the j plan was "going" in Georgia and he! wanted to get it "going" in South Carolina. He said he told Felder the "scheme" was impractical. The conversation referred to was after letter j of October 2, 1905. He said he told j Boykin and Towill that Felder wanted | to see them before the time they metj at tne Jerome noiei. oaia dujaiu nam ; he didn't want to see Felder. Said he j paid no attention to Felder's conversation with Boykin and Towill as "I was used to Felder's gabbing along." Accepted Some Ties Once. Evans said he knew of none who' had rec-eived any gift or money out- j side of one time he received and ac-! cepted half dozen ties. Knew of no i State officer, senator, representative, etc., who had represented any liquor ! house. Said representatives of liuqor; houses, "who had tried all kinds of; parliamentary tactics 011 him," but: only one who had offered any money outside of Tom Felder was M. A. j Goodman, who once came into his j room with a roll of cash and offered! | him a bribe. Evans said John Black \ was present, standing at head of stairs 'Evans said he kicked Goodman down j . the steps. Evans said Goodman's j house got orders after this; that all' liquor for dispensary was ordered on' i requisition of the commissioner. Wit! * "> /'-i _ ? : ness saiu ne never saw ?auuuiiiciu muuu i after the incident referred to, but that; he was around Columbia. ! Tried to Evade Liquor Drummers. I I Mr. Evans said it was in the Cald- j well hotel that he kicked Goodman j I down the steps when he (Goodman) j offered him money. "Witness said he! I moved around to the Caldw.ell hotel to I be out of the way of liquor drummers, j and that he left orders that when they j called he was "not in" to them. I "Goodman was a smart Aleck," said j ; "Hub", referring to the fact that the' I ! last time he saw Goodman was when i the latter came down here before the \ Ansel commission. Witness said he j J gave the governor none of the infor- j i mation set out in "Message No. 4," and j i he never talked to him about it until i i he had read it in the papers. Repeat- j ed his statement that he told the gov-; ernor there was no conference held in j Atlanta between him, John* Gary; j j Evans, Felder and Attorney General! 1 Lyon. Said he did not know where j i the governor got the information in j i the message. Yisit to Blease. At 1.40 a recess of five minutes was taken to allow a committee, consisting of Messrs. J. J. Evans and J. H. i Clifton, to go down to the governor's j office and ask him for the "T. B." let-1 I ; ters, which "Hub" Evans referred to ! in his testimony. * The committee re- ; . turned and reported that the governor replied to their request for the "T. B."; letters that he would "not turn them! i owr to the committee except upon or-; der of a circuit judge." "T nrrl Vrtur time. T WOuld be: : delighted," said H. H. Evans, when | i Senator Carlisle asked him if h? had : : any objections to the letters coming i before the committee. He said he would be glad to have the committee j sec- the letters. j "Do you know anything either by, the record or otherwise tending to sub- j stanxiate the charges made by the' governor in Message Xo. 4," Senator Carlisle asked H, H. Evans. I "No, sir,' was the reply. He said he , jknew nothing to substantiate the! charges. Didn't Say Letters Were Stolen. Columbia, March 15.?Mr. H. H. | Evans, who, in his testimony yester| day referred to the "T. B." letters hav| ing been taken from his desk by some| one and read, stated that he did not jj say the letters were stolen from his desk, but that they were read by somei one without his knowledge. "You know I would not object to my friends j reading the letters," he said by way' of explanation. 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